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[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | I hide behind the wall, praying Starhands doesn't find me yet, and tremble as I fumble with my battered old mp3 player.
I don't want to but I have to use it. The forbidden playlist. The reason why I'm even on this team when my powers only last as long as the song plays.
Track 1. Running Down A Dream by Tom Petty And ... | Lying flat on ground, I can feel at least seventeen dozens of my bones has cracked, I think I have never been injured this much.
“Cut the beat, “ I said, as the enemy turn it's target toward yet another of my companions. “I need healing songs, Rain.”
“Oh my... You still alive? Okay, listen to me, -”
“Na-ah, listen ... | 2022-05-17T12:33:11 | 2022-05-17T11:29:53 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] "Sanctuary," the child cried running into the library "Nice try," the guard following after sneered, "but only holy places can grant sanctuary." The librarians glanced at each other. A small nod The head librarian gave the guard a stern look. "Sanctuary granted" | The guard tried to storm into the library but the head librarian positioned herself firmly in his path. She was not a large woman and the guard was a tall, muscular man but the way that the librarian carried herself gave him pause. She had drawn herself up to her full, diminutive height and was glaring at him with such... | The High Church of Asteros. Divine. Devoted. And dangerous to trifle with. Even the Queen of all Fretoria tread lightly in their hallowed halls. And it was rumored that some of the members of the Lords Court were secret patrons of the High Church. One such rumor revolves around the city library of Lord Barnabus in the ... | 2022-07-06T08:21:18 | 2022-07-06T07:13:06 | 90 | 31 |
[WP] The young woman had spoken to everyone in town, asking them to teach her to fight. The warrior, the hunter, the knight, all had declined. Finally, in desperation, she spoke to the dwarven blacksmith. Lowering his massive hammer he looked at the fire in her eyes and said "Aye. I could do that." | Her cheeks were flush with a fury that rippled out in every direction unchecked, a raging sea crashing against everything in its path. "Aye. I could do that. It will cost you, child. But I could do it."
"I don't care what it costs. I will pay."
Her clenched fists shook, but her breath began to slow as the indignati... | The night's darkness plagued the town of Terbarrow, dim lanterns illuminating the gloomy streets. Everyone had gone to their homes and fallen asleep by now and cleared the pathways of the town, everyone but a ghostly figure. The ghoul wandered the streets, checking through all the windows and entering the empty pubs. A... | 2022-08-28T11:54:09 | 2022-08-28T10:43:06 | 69 | 19 |
[WP] A technological civilisation reaches its moon, and is greeted by its god. | "Something's gone wrong. I don't think his communication device... It must be malfunctioning." There had been no word from the shuttle since entering the moon's orbit.
Alarms start to sound and the groundcontrol room is bathed in flashing red light.
Silence from the controllers and monitors.
After a long 3 minutes, ... | Her pupils dilated in the dim light. Today. Ecstasy had started to fill her body since the early hours of this mourning. Today; Today we would join our gods in paradise and breath into ourselves a new awakening, a new understanding of ourselves and be masters of our own fate, rather than slaves to *them*.
But was that... | 2013-10-28T12:20:04 | 2013-10-28T11:28:33 | 30 | 12 |
[WP](NSFW) The world has moved on from nature documentaries, leaving many narrators out of a job. These men and women turn to a new field; narrating pornography.
Nature documentarists narrating porn. | DeVoors lay in bed, watching raw footage of the Great Barrier Reef. A clownfish, an octopus, and an orca whale were converging. DeVoors knew that at least one of them was about to get eaten.
“The carefree clownfish flits between coral structures and giant clams, oblivious to the danger nearby...” DeVoors enunciated... | FADE IN
INT - A BEDROOM
*A YOUNG MAN is seated on a bed, reading through a generic sports-themed magazine. He is tall and muscular, and seems to be hiding an expectant smirk. He is shirtless, and otherwise clad in a pair of tight-fitting jeans.*
**NARRATOR:** Within homes across the planet, a time-honored ritual is ... | 2015-04-08T11:47:33 | 2015-04-08T11:43:32 | 58 | 29 |
[WP](NSFW) The world has moved on from nature documentaries, leaving many narrators out of a job. These men and women turn to a new field; narrating pornography.
Nature documentarists narrating porn. | “Ok, relax, you can do this” Darrell thought nervously.
He got comfortable in the booth and made his headset a little more snug. This was a situation he had been in a hundred times before. But today, the new content came in. The dryness in his mouth, coating his tongue, was a direct result of this….”New content.”
... | FADE IN
INT - A BEDROOM
*A YOUNG MAN is seated on a bed, reading through a generic sports-themed magazine. He is tall and muscular, and seems to be hiding an expectant smirk. He is shirtless, and otherwise clad in a pair of tight-fitting jeans.*
**NARRATOR:** Within homes across the planet, a time-honored ritual is ... | 2015-04-08T14:39:02 | 2015-04-08T11:43:32 | 46 | 29 |
[WP] You child is playing with their toy phone when they hand it to you saying "It's for you." Humoring them, you put it up it to your ear and say "Hello", Someone replies on the other end. | "Hello"
My blood ran cold as the unexpected voice shattered my peace of mind.
"who the hell is this?" I replied trying not to let my voice tremble.
"Yabba dabba do, I like talkin' to you!" was the reply.
After a moments confusion I realized that it was a novelty phone with pre-recorded messages, makes sense or it woul... | "The Child!"
*I inhaled rapidly and practically dropped the toy*
"Hello-" He didn't let me finish my sentence.
"The Child. Now." he said in a rough voice.
"..." I paused. I say to my wife "Take her out of the room." My wife then takes our daughter, Jocelyn, out of the living room and into ours.
"Who the hell are ... | 2015-04-18T22:04:42 | 2015-04-18T21:05:19 | 153 | 11 |
[WP] You are an immortal and have been alive for millions of years without anyone finding out. However, Human kind has been evolving, and you have stayed the same. | "Wake this morning. Wonder how sleep in first place. House not feel comforting in years. Need to rearrange house again, but hard to find new patterns. Work closed today from snow. Go to library, still open. Go on reddit to see events today. People same for most part, but news give healthy distraction. Mostly watch vide... | **Disclaimer: I'm really sorry, after writing out the nonsense below, I realised I had read the prompt incorrectly and kind of left out the part in which 'nobody found out the character was immortal/not evolving.' Thought I'd post it regardless:**
"Kevin, just pass me the pad." Kevin is my 'older' brother. Well, he's... | 2015-12-09T06:20:25 | 2015-12-09T05:58:59 | 78 | 21 |
[WP] They tried to summon a demon. They got you. | Have you ever been summoned? Like, literally pulled through fucking space and time on someone else's whim?
WELL, LET ME TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED THE OTHER DAY.
So, I'm chilling in the park, minding my own business and BOOM. I'm suddenly in this old warehouse, surrounded by -and I shit you not- fucking teenagers. Like ... | (Warning: I kinda read the prompt wrong so in the story they actually summon a demon. I am so sorry but I hope you still take the time to read my story.)
“Shit!” I mumbled, pressing my talons into my temples and messaging them. “That felt like you put me in blender and just went-VRAVRAGSRVGVGARVAR” I mimicked the s... | 2016-02-02T22:57:46 | 2016-02-02T20:07:55 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] Once a year you switch bodies with a random person who is best in the world at a certain skill. You can't change back until you discover what this skill is. You've been changed for a month and are starting to get worried. | The pile of clothes on the floor had grown to the point it was level with the bed. Normally this would have driven me crazy. I don't really know what it was about this switch. I just felt...comfortable. I'd been awake for a while, but was just browsing Reddit for a while. Then I noticed the time: 11:45. Going to be lat... | I groaned, getting up from bed. After making the bed, I went to the restroom to brush my teeth and use the restroom. I looked through my closet and saw the same blue Polo shirts and khaki pants combo that I would wear to work. After changing my clothes and sending the dirty ones through the laundry chute, I walked down... | 2016-09-26T07:49:26 | 2016-09-26T07:44:55 | 147 | 68 |
[WP] You tell Siri to call your friend Rob but she mishears you and calls God. God answers. | "Calling God," Siri's robotic voice called out. I rubbed my temples. My husband must have changed his name from "Rob" to "God" yet again. Which was not the worst name he had changed his contact name to. I wasn't in the mood to deal with his shit, though. I shuffled through the papers as the ringing ended, and a voice a... | *Calling God*
I was ten miles south of nowhere and running on fumes when I tried to call my friend Rob to see if he could keep me awake. When Siri made the mistake I figure it would just ring out into a busy signal. I nearly swerved off the rode when a voice answered.
"Hello." He sounded like he was expecting the c... | 2016-12-29T11:11:09 | 2016-12-29T11:08:48 | 64 | 28 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "I don't know if she's all that daft. I think she may be a witch."
"Who? Mad Mary of the Idiot Wood!? A witch? I doubt that very much."
"She could be playing dumb to throw us off, so we don't suspect."
"We are talking about the daft old lady who'll give you vegetables if you dump your chamber pot in that thing be... | "Hey Glinda! Stop eating that cow meat! You need to cook it first."
Glinda rolled her eyes at Dahv-id. He claimed he could read, and was from a time far beyond ours. But Glinda knew he was just some crazy guy who didn't want her to eat.
"But I'm hungry!" Glinda shouted back. "Can one not partake in a meal during meal... | 2017-09-14T12:11:29 | 2017-09-14T09:55:29 | 240 | 97 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "but the bread mold saved your grandfather Mort. And the maggots saved Earl's crushed food when everyone knew he was going to die. Sucking out the snake bite didn't save your boy Martha but any other healer would not have even tried. We lost what six of the last twenty babes born under her care? What other village can ... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T15:04:14 | 2017-09-14T09:12:27 | 85 | 11 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "but the bread mold saved your grandfather Mort. And the maggots saved Earl's crushed food when everyone knew he was going to die. Sucking out the snake bite didn't save your boy Martha but any other healer would not have even tried. We lost what six of the last twenty babes born under her care? What other village can ... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T15:04:14 | 2017-09-14T07:33:54 | 85 | 10 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "but the bread mold saved your grandfather Mort. And the maggots saved Earl's crushed food when everyone knew he was going to die. Sucking out the snake bite didn't save your boy Martha but any other healer would not have even tried. We lost what six of the last twenty babes born under her care? What other village can ... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T10:52:25 | 2017-09-14T09:12:27 | 82 | 11 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "but the bread mold saved your grandfather Mort. And the maggots saved Earl's crushed food when everyone knew he was going to die. Sucking out the snake bite didn't save your boy Martha but any other healer would not have even tried. We lost what six of the last twenty babes born under her care? What other village can ... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T10:52:25 | 2017-09-14T07:33:54 | 82 | 10 |
[WP] After thousands of years of space exploration, humanity has searched through the majority of the Milky Way. And they’ve discovered something scarier than alien life: the fact that there is none. | Two hundred million twenty five.
The number of years since man first set foot outside our own solar system.
Technological advancements have only made space travel faster, safer, more affordable. Our capacity grew exponentially from then.
With it, our understanding of the galaxy - but also the grim truth.
It was o... | I could hear static crackling in the control room ahead as I stumbled down the ship's corridor. The tiny lights above were as bright as suns, and they danced in slow, nauseating circles. I fell to my knees and vomited, my body jerking violently as I expelled a green liquid, a mix of bio nutrients from Cryo, onto the la... | 2018-01-05T07:22:34 | 2018-01-05T06:00:59 | 47 | 12 |
[WP] After thousands of years of space exploration, humanity has searched through the majority of the Milky Way. And they’ve discovered something scarier than alien life: the fact that there is none. | All was still on the craggy surface of Io, save for a few small pieces of debris that blew in lazy circles by the force of a frigid morning breeze. Dr. Peter Robbins left out a soft sigh as he surveyed the desolate landscape. His twenty year expedition to near countless planets, moons, and asteroids had been fruitless,... | I could hear static crackling in the control room ahead as I stumbled down the ship's corridor. The tiny lights above were as bright as suns, and they danced in slow, nauseating circles. I fell to my knees and vomited, my body jerking violently as I expelled a green liquid, a mix of bio nutrients from Cryo, onto the la... | 2018-01-05T06:10:07 | 2018-01-05T06:00:59 | 38 | 12 |
[WP] You are a scientist who discovers that souls do exist. You also find out that humans are the only animals that do not have them. | Ironically it was a woman named Ginger Daniels that had the first soul they could calculate. I remember looking down at the list, all 57 names, and wondering what it meant. As number 58, I was a rarity, a human with a soul.
But that was simplifying it too much. I had never really been one to put stock in religion and... | "I've... I've got it!" I had the sudden urge to shout 'Eureka!', but the elation that doing that would cause likely would disturb the sample.
"What do you mean?" I heard Marco ask. He phrased it normally, but I could tell by his voice that he was excited.
"The soul. The soul! I've got a sample of it!" I hurried to ... | 2018-01-27T04:10:50 | 2018-01-27T04:05:20 | 237 | 128 |
[WP] Just as the almighty villain is about to strike down the destined hero, they notice that said hero is only 15 years old. Disgusted, they demand to know who would force such a massive responsibility onto a child, and take it upon themselves to raise this kid as he should have been raised. | "Heh. How old are you, boy?"
The child watched his reflection shifting on the mirrored armor of his foe. "Eighteen," he lied.
"And how many years have you been alive for?" The Emperor chuckled.
"Fifteen," the boy mumbled.
The Emperor pulled off his helmet. The boy was shocked to see a man, and not a monster. The... | Each stir at the broth came along with a shake of his head. How couldn't anyone see the stress weighing down on this poor kid's shoulders? Why did fate place such an lacking boy in such an important role?
It didn't make sense, and so Ferronyr stirred, making sure the broth was perfect for this confused youngling who ... | 2018-09-20T23:37:20 | 2018-09-20T18:11:25 | 48 | 35 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | I'm the first to admit I drew the short straw in the magic lottery. Oh, people assumed I would be all for it on M-day, me the 'Professional Magician' finally getting the appreciation I deserved. Finally my parents would be proud of me, finally my wife wouldn't lie and tell people I was an accountant at parties.
&#... | The two figures stood in the street. One, a man covered in a flowing black robe, face obscured by a blank silver mask, raised his hand above his head, pointing a wand at the opposing figure. Opposite him, merely metres away in the twilight night, his foe simply raised her hands, slowly forming runes in the air, body en... | 2018-10-16T03:09:42 | 2018-10-16T02:17:50 | 42 | 27 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | I'm the first to admit I drew the short straw in the magic lottery. Oh, people assumed I would be all for it on M-day, me the 'Professional Magician' finally getting the appreciation I deserved. Finally my parents would be proud of me, finally my wife wouldn't lie and tell people I was an accountant at parties.
&#... | I stalked ahead, fully aware of the traits of the devastating weapons loaded in my sack and pockets. I tried to recall the symbols I’d need to create any number of permutations. My opponent stared me down and began to chant. I huff at her, with her clumsily thick blue robes and childish conical hat. I’ve trained my bod... | 2018-10-16T03:09:42 | 2018-10-15T22:07:03 | 42 | 26 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | The Bender was out of breath, his rock had connected with the Wizard's head as she finished hastily scribbling on paper, after rounds of trading subtle earthbending techniques and strange spells. The Wizard was knocked over and stopped moving. He cautiously approached her and noticed a distinct lack of breathing. His e... | Streaks of light paint the night sky as a girl sings her heart out. The intense melody of “Sayonara no Tsubasa” fills up the surrounding along with explosions from the battle between the Unicorn Gundam and the girl’s Boyfriend’s YF-29 Durandal.
The Unicorn Gundam in Destroy mode fires it’s beam magnum along with its ... | 2018-10-16T02:22:26 | 2018-10-15T22:23:51 | 34 | 13 |
[WP] There is a magic artefact, with no power but to provide context-appropriate background music in the mind of its wielder. | The Box was usually too soft to hear unless I focused on it. But sometimes, at critical moments, [the music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlYCxbBZUCY) would blow up, demand my attention.
***
I remember the first time I ever heard the Box. I was a 17-year-old girl holding her one and only family's hand as he died.
... | Since time immemorial, emotions were the drive of mankind. But while everyone had them, some did not get them. For that reason, Sarah was a particular pile of misery. Her clothes were drenched, a wet testament to the rainstorm outside. Her youthful body managed to look broken and old by sheer virtue of hugging the bar ... | 2019-04-27T07:21:58 | 2019-04-27T07:19:45 | 38 | 19 |
[WP] Turns our that dragons are laid back underachievers. They could rule as gods, being virtually invincible, but almost all of them prefer a nice comfy nest in the mountains and a nice fat cow every week. | "YIELD, FOUL BEAST OF HELL!" Clang. Clang.
Sir Galahad's blade, the Holy Sword of Antioch, rang on the serpent's adamant scales with a peal like thunder.
The ancient wyrm yawned, and squinted down at the ant like dot of a man to see what the fuss was about. "Ah," it sighed, and its breath leveled a hillside. "Here ... | “You want...what?”
I was face-to-face with one of the world’s most powerful creatures: A dragoness named Shalia. Her scales could shatter the strongest steel, withstand our most brutal siege weaponry, and conquer even our greatest wizards. With a single stroke from her claws she could have turned me into mince meat. E... | 2019-05-25T22:01:38 | 2019-05-25T21:36:52 | 270 | 76 |
[WP] All demons must have a unique summoning ritual, but you didn't want to ever be bothered by mortals, so made your ritual as convoluted as you were allowed to. But someone has just performed it, completely by accident | "Wait so let me get this straight
You made a pentagram out of tooth brushes,"
She interrupts "yeah I make stock photos"
A little confused I continue
"And you ate a peeled lemon, danced in a circle 27 ¼ times all within 57 seconds?"
"My cat was trying to get my pentagram while I ate, it was a bit of a hassle"
More ... | It was a nice Tuesday here in hell and as usual I was looking forward to pancake night . Once again Fred, Nancy , and Enrique all sent their regards via facebook . I loved that at least once a month those regards were " Sorry" "Can't make it" "I been summoned by some teenager" ,usually from California it seemed, beca... | 2020-02-16T08:10:42 | 2020-02-16T07:37:27 | 27 | 20 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | I did it.
I want to scream, “I did it!” but there’s another camper hanging around and if I scream about completing that awful curry dex, he’ll question what I mean.
I’m the champ, you know. Gotta keep up the image.
I smile to myself and let my sweet little Pokémon (not—they’re IV trained, Gigantamax beasts; if you... | I do not remember anymore for how long I've wandered the fog. I remember how it started, I know where I am headed, and I remember every little detail of everything I did since the time I replied yes to a innocuous text message.
This would have been smarter to never answer, or to play a game of something nice before a... | 2020-02-17T00:45:30 | 2020-02-17T00:26:12 | 31 | 10 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | I blink rapidly, trying to clear my head.
Where am I? Last thing I remember was... a text message? Some sort of joke or prank of some kind. Something to do with a video game.
Images flashed in my head: a beautiful woman on horse back. A violent battle. A silver bird skull.
The woman, I was trying to find her. I *h... | I opened my eyes to a warm sun shining from outside a stone arch, and promptly freaked out: *Warm? Sun? I was in the freezing north seconds ago, waiting for the water to boil so I can get some heat inside me with some tea, Where the fuck am I?*
Unprompted a different perspective opened, like a third eye that shouldn't... | 2020-02-17T00:38:53 | 2020-02-16T23:11:27 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] While reading your favourite book for the 7th time, you get sucked into it and become part of the storyline. Unfortunately for you, you are forced to be on the antagonists' side and help them defeat the good guys. | *Whoa.* Where was I?
I had just been settling into my couch, letting my mind wander to fantasies about magic and monsters when I felt an odd twisting sensation, like the room was spinning but my body couldn't quite catch up, and I stumbled as I found myself suddenly on solid ground.
"Whoa, mate, you alright?"
I rig... | This had to be the one of the best parts of the book.
Jakob was in the middle of battle, shooting at an opposing German soldier who had fallen into his line of site. There was at least two entire paragraph's of his inner turmoil about killing someone, about playing god and taking away their life. "But he remembered B... | 2020-03-19T13:40:13 | 2020-03-19T12:19:14 | 27 | 13 |
[WP]As the cop put the handcuffs on he asked in a panicked voice, "Why are you letting me do this?" | "Because I didn't do it."
That makes him hesitate ever so briefly, but he clicks the cuffs on. "What do you mean, you didn't do it? This has your signature all over it."
"Are all cops this stupid, or just you?"
It slipped out before I could stop it. I grit my teeth. Stupid as they may have been, I really didn't do ... | Sentients of countless species teemed on the gangways of dock 3 as the massive starship disgorged its passengers. For the diplomats, signatories, and rich tourists of the Galactic Federation it was just another day opening a new rim world but for the human race it was a historic day. News drones floated high above the ... | 2020-12-18T20:02:16 | 2020-12-18T18:43:38 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] After slaying the foul dragon the king offered the knight the hand of his daughter in marriage. Neither of them were happy with this arrangement, the princess being completely disinterested in this stranger and the knight was expecting something like money or a title for risking his life | A battered knight entered the king’s courtroom dragging a large burlap sack. He knelt down at the throne’s high rise base, opened the sack, and exposed proof of his kill.
A severed bloodied claw the size of a calf laid in the sack.
The king looked down and nodded.
Two days prior, Theodric had slayed Ire the Toxic... | For seven years she awoke in soft sheets and gentle sunlight. There were no serving maids to dress her, but she was no longer put on display and paraded; she was not the doll in the looking box. She was thankful of him for that at least, these moments of relative freedom. She looked to the nightstand for today's fl... | 2021-01-11T11:00:20 | 2021-01-11T09:16:38 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] You thought it’s be fun to scare your wife when she got home from work while the kids were out Trick or Treating. To your horror and immense surprise, you frightened her so badly that she spontaneously turned into a wooden chair. The kids will be home soon and you don’t know what the do. | There she was on the floor, turned into a chair. I slapped myself hard, once.. twice.. I counted my fingers, I tried holding my breath. I looked at it, a damn ordinary looking wooden chair. I felt the grain, I got a splinter.
I sat on the floor and stared at it, vaguely aware somewhere in the back of my mind that the... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 4, Part ?: Wallflower v.s. Domestic Life)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Spontaneous involuntary transmutation was one of the most unfortunate powers a child could have.** Eve... | 2021-05-30T00:28:19 | 2021-05-29T20:40:01 | 463 | 143 |
[WP] Your ship's new prototype energy cannon just vaporized an alien warship, shattered a moon, and punched a hole through a planet. "Sir, message from thier flagship: What the !@#$ing %/&$ was that?!". | The comms blinked amid the hiss of venting oxygen and crackling, exposed wire. The green light flashed insistently for my attention, out of sync with the red alert lights pulsing throughout the ship's bridge. My crew was silent, tension written across their faces, as we all looked upon the trail of destruction displaye... | 2748: completion of the Hadox-Boson results in its mounting on a purpose-built Behemoth class battlecruiser
2749: the Ymir is launched before full systems testing is completed as pressures on inner-system world's reaches breaking point. Yag-Ar fleets sweep from world to world, chemically indoctrinating populations and... | 2021-08-03T11:32:55 | 2021-08-03T11:18:51 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] Mermaids are the women thrown overboard by superstitious sailors, saved and altered by the sea's magic. They lure ships onto rocks for vengeance, singing with husky voices from throats that remember the sting of inhaled saltwater. | My earliest memory is of my mother's voice. Sitting by the fireside, her face cast in orange in the embers' glow, she would sew with slow, deliberate movements and fill the room with her thin, reedy voice. Outside, the wintry night was cold and silent. And I know I must have been cold then, too--the rest of my memor... | Don't idolize me. Don't you sit there and make videos and buy fancy swim equipment so you can look like me. Don't.
You think I'm pretty, and free, and happy?
Think again. I am a broken shell of the girl I was before all this happened. It was a bad year for father, and I'd joined a ship's crew as a result. It saved ... | 2021-08-30T16:33:33 | 2021-08-30T15:46:30 | 428 | 124 |
[WP] A teen girl stares in shock and horror at the stump where her arm was just a few minutes ago. Shaking in horror, not because she had just lost her arm in a car accident, but because inside was sparking wires and circuits, a metal bone instead of normal flesh and blood. | Sarah sat up, incredibly sore, but the pain wasn't unbearable, probably just bruising, nothing broken. Her bicycle was absolutely trashed though. It looked like it had folded in half. The blue car had gone on to wrap itself around a lamppost. Other people were checking on the driver.
The red car next to her was uncomf... | She looked down at her arm in utter shock....suddenly a strong rumbling was felt from all around her. Startled and in shock she looked up to the sky with wide eyes to see a transport helicopter slowly descending to her location.
A dark, calm, figure in a brown trench coat appeared from the side sliding door of the hel... | 2022-01-26T12:31:14 | 2022-01-26T12:29:47 | 93 | 24 |
[WP] You're the worst adventurer in history. You've made every imaginable mistake and have had little to no success in quests or dungeons. So you decide to set up a school to teach new adventures what not to do. Your graduates have gone on to be elite adventurers making your school famous. | When the Head Professor entered the class, most students barely even turned their heads, entrapped within their own little dialogues and blatantly uninterested in the upcoming lecture. Many Adventurers would be hard pressed to fault them for it since to be in the presence of one Barnabas Thistle was as thrilling as wat... | This is the story of Amar Quentro, prince of Quentro and founder of the Amar Quentro Adventure Academy.
All his life, Amar had felt like most of the world got it all wrong about him. Kinda like, everyone tried to make him out, make a word cage for him with their descriptions, but when they spat out their sentence-boxe... | 2022-08-02T21:29:22 | 2022-08-02T18:11:44 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] 2 seconds for a murder, a minute for an explosion. at 9/11 it stopped for 25. your wrist watch always stops whenever something bad happens. However, this time its been still for 3 hours, but you can't figure out what has happened. | Frozen at 4:35pm, still not moving. I was getting really nervous now. Night had fallen and the stars shone bright. My friends clustered around our weekly Sunday bonfire in the woods, blissfully drinking beer.
I sighed, looking up at the thin streaky clouds and twinkling lights. "Yo, Bennett, what are you doing over he... | Huh? It stopped again, and it’s still stopped.
“Is something wrong?”
“It’s nothing really, my watch is acting up again.”
“You really should buy a new one, you have commented and gotten stressed out about it stopping so many times. I have no idea why you haven’t replaced it yet.”
If only you really knew.
“I know,... | 2022-10-22T06:32:24 | 2022-10-22T00:52:22 | 52 | 10 |
[WP] You had a high school friend who always talked about world domination. At graduation you jokingly make them promise you to give you the rank of a general. 20 years later a series of violent coups happen out of nowhere and the new dictator appoints you as a general. | I'm a stand-up comedian. And not a successful one. I do a lot of bar shows. I once did a show on a cruise ship. It did not go amazing. Turns out retirees are not my target audience. Luckily for me, I think cruise-ships might end up being a thing of the past. Retirement might be as well. That is what happens after world... | I remember that day, clear as water. Calum had promised that once he had dominated the world, he'd appoint *me* general. We of course, laughed it off, knowing that stuff would never happen. But here I am.
I've been watching the news, checking in every 5 minutes to see what's happening, when suddenly there's a sharp ra... | 2022-10-29T18:20:29 | 2022-10-29T18:00:38 | 829 | 63 |
[WP] Adapt a famous fairy tale so it has a realistic ending.
I'm about to go to sleep. Bedtime story!... Except that I won't read anything until I get up. Happy Saturday. | “Off with her head!” came the Queens familiar cry.
All around Alice her enemies closed in around her. “You cannot hurt me” she whispered defiantly. “You cannot hurt me, you’re just a pack of cards!”
At her bedside in the hospital her father was shuffling the deck. It had been three months since he had begun his vi... | You never leave some crime scenes. Physically, you part, but days, weeks, years later you wake up screaming, terrified. Some crime scenes are demons that latch onto your soul and slowly eat at your sanity. Some crime scenes never leave you.
When Detective O'Grady walked in the first thing that hit him was the smell. ... | 2014-03-29T09:16:17 | 2014-03-29T09:08:11 | 75 | 42 |
[WP] A lonely teenage boy asks a genie to let him talk to his future wife. The person who appears is not who he expects. | "Okay fine waste your one wish." said the djinn with no small amount of exasperation, and with that his eyes rolled far into the back of his skull, his hands raised to the sky, then with a melodramatic burst of coloured smoke popped into existence... an ornate urn.
"What the hell's that?" said a very shocked Tom.
"Well... | "Hello there, my name is Andrésssss," he said, rolling out the 's' with his smooth Latin-American accent. A short, dark man, he wore a goatee like a swordfighter and a cleanly pressed purple shirt.
James could say nothing, only blink repeatedly, before sputtering out, "B-b-b-but... what?"
"Oh Himmy, you are jus so cu... | 2014-06-05T08:29:11 | 2014-06-05T07:40:47 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] Jesus returns and he's much different than we had thought | "So you're Jesus?"
"Yep."
"But where are the holes in the palms of your hands?"
"God, everyone asks about the damn hands. You guys took that seriously. Total metaphor. Never happened."
"What?"
"Yep."
"So what about the whole rebirth thing and being all dead and then coming back?"
"What about it?"
"Was that a li... | You would be forgiven for thinking there was a music festival. It's hard to think of any familiar example to describe the number of people or the intensely joyous atmosphere and that is, after the event, how people described it, they were waiting for him the same way they had waited for Freddie Mercury or Michael Jacks... | 2014-08-06T13:35:31 | 2014-08-06T13:07:40 | 40 | 12 |
[WP] You are 90% certain your waiter is Hitler.
Stolen (shamelessly) from an AMA I saw. | The waiter looked at me expectantly, and rocked forward and back on his heels rather awkwardly as he endured my protracted silence.
"I uh - t-that is to say - my, you've aged surprisingly well!" I finally managed to issue, immediately cringing at my own inanity.
"Sir?" said the man I was almost certain was Hitler in ... | He guided me to my table. As I sat down, he turned to face me, placed the menu down gracefully and stated, "Sherry should be here anny minute! She'll be your waiter for this morning!~"
It was an interesting place. Bohemia everywhere, a place that reeked hipster. But it also boasted the best waffles in town, so her... | 2015-01-15T19:51:26 | 2015-01-15T19:19:07 | 349 | 30 |
[WP] You are 90% certain your waiter is Hitler.
Stolen (shamelessly) from an AMA I saw. | WAITER: *Guten morgen!* Can I get you anything to drink?
LANA: (Gaping openly.)
ARCHER: (Looking at the menu, not even noticing the distinctly Hitlerish waiter.) Ok, can I start off with a liter of the Oktoberfest... better make that a pitcher... two glasses of goldwasser, a long island iced tea, and... do you have G... | "Hallo," a voice said to Justin's left. "Are you ready to order?"
"Er, yes," Justin said, staring at the menu. He wasn't quite sure what he wanted, between his usual favorite or the soup of the day. He decided to play it safe. "The southwest chicken sounds good. Is it okay if I take it to go?" He folded up the menu an... | 2015-01-15T23:20:05 | 2015-01-15T22:20:32 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] There exists a court that sentences people with "Would You Rather" questions. Whichever option the person picks, becomes reality.
Feel free to play any role - a person on trial, a judge, a member of the jury - anything! | Someone had caught up to Jack.
It didn't really matter who it was. What mattered was that they had shot him. The pain in his chest told him that he was going to die. Fuck. Maybe that was what he deserved. He had ...
"Welcome to purgatory."
Jack clutched at his chest but found that it didn't hurt anymore.
He... | I thrummed my fingers on top of my legs as I thought. It was a habit I got into when I was younger, though then I used to do it on the table instead. However I changed that habit when I became employed as it tended to irritate the others in the room and make the accused overtly nervous. One even snapped and tried to ma... | 2015-08-15T11:43:19 | 2015-08-15T11:24:51 | 650 | 80 |
[WP] A plane carrying all 17 Republican Presidential nominees crashes over the ocean. All survive uninjured, but are marooned on an island. Chris Christie has found the conch. | Two days later, rescuers arrive finding only a lone, hungry New Jersey Governor in a wasteland of the burnt and blackened Island forest.
He was taken aboard the USS Findafatfuck and fed and questioned. It is quickly revealed that the 17 had begun to argue about whether the doomed flight should have been aborted when i... | As they walked back toward the beach and with a sulking face, Christie held the conch out disdainfully from one stubby index finger to Jindal.
"You try it. Ever since the lap band surgery, I can't push with my diaphragm like i used to."
"What's a diaphragm?"
"Never mind. I see them."
Out on the beach, Trump stood ... | 2015-08-17T20:26:38 | 2015-08-17T19:59:33 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You've recently become president of the United States- unfortunately, life isn't nearly as fun as you'd hoped. You begin doing crazy things to get out of office, but every thing you do seems to be the right thing at the right time. | Wasn't this a movie idea from tumblr or something? I'm pretty sure the president was supposed to be played by Jeff Goldblum.
Anyway.
You have to understand. To Jeff Goldblum, this started as a game. He never expected to actually win the election. Who would vote for an actor? Sure, it worked for Reagan, but that was o... | I was tired of everything. Tired of corruption. Tired of lies and deceits. Tired of idiots who seem to win elections because the people were too stupid to research their political representative. I was tired of everyone being stupid. Fuck it. It was time to change some shit.
"Susan, get your ass in here. Right fu**ing... | 2015-09-12T18:38:57 | 2015-09-12T18:37:12 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] It is the end of days. God and Lucifer stand before the last human being. You are the first neutral soul who is neither good or evil enough to pass into a afterlife and thus must be judged personally. Unknown to them, you are Death and have come for them instead. | They looked tired, incredibly so. I felt bad for them, I knew what they were going through, I had been going through that same process for ages now. It wasn't the same though, I was built differently. This little hunk of rock where the three of us stood was the last bastion of life in the universe. The crunch had begun... | "Why do we have to do this here?"
"Keep quiet and focus."
"I hate these fluffy clouds. They make me sick."
"Fire and screams is not a better environment."
"Says you!"
My expression was unreadable. I didn't intend to give them any clue as to what my thoughts were.
The situation was grimly funny. The one on the lef... | 2015-10-19T14:41:33 | 2015-10-19T13:51:39 | 214 | 17 |
[WP] Its the year 2277, genetic modification is legal, but not without its controversies. Your problem? Your parents are hardcore furries. | I pity some of my friends.
My mom was born a baseline, in Canada. She was a 'practical' person, so when the biotech become available to her, she made some weird changes to her body.
As I hope you know, Canada is part of the 'great north' and it gets really cold up here, so one of the items on her list was adding fur an... | Blood.. everywhere.. why? Why was there so much blood? Why is it on me? My hands, my.. No. Oh god no, the enhancements, they..
I have to run. Far away. No one will find me. The enhancements will make sure of that. Lion and chamelion were a good choice, good job mum and pops. Thankfully I retained most of my human ap... | 2016-06-15T11:23:24 | 2016-06-15T11:12:24 | 42 | 27 |
[WP] You gain EXP for everything you kill and you know when you gain EXP. Easy kills like bugs get you only a couple of EXP, tougher kills give more EXP. One day at home doing nothing, you unexpectedly gain 1500 XP... | Nobody took me seriously, who had ever heard of a grown adult with less than 100xp? No one, that's who. Here I am in my late twenties with only the odd accidental insect death that can never be avoided. It wasn't that I wanted to avoid gaining xp though, it's that I just couldn't bring myself to be around death of a... | *Plghrt*
> Kill confirmed
*Sigh*
Another bug down, 1XP. Lovely, I'll never reach 10k, not at this rate. It started with the mice and rats, then the cats, fish. It's a privilege to work at a slaughter house or deliver lethal injections. I never could do that, not intentionally. The look in their eyes, the helplessn... | 2017-05-15T09:46:57 | 2017-05-15T06:23:41 | 43 | 10 |
[WP] The inverse of corruption: the hero has lost, but in a way that forced the villain to face goodness within himself, which spirals out of control and turns him into a hero more virtuous than the one he defeated. | Heroes are tall, strong men and women. Flowing hair, well-maintained weight, spandex underwear on the outside of the suits. That kind of thing. I should know - I've fought all of them. Captain Amazing, of course, with his heavy-handed justice; Webspinner, with his off-color jokes; The Duo, inexplicably conjoined twins ... | That was it then. One bullet. That was all it would take. His lifelong enemy would be dead at his feet within seconds. Something felt off in his stomach, but he cast the feeling aside.
"Any last words, buddy?" He said, not hoping for a plead of mercy, but something good to top off 10 years of hunting him down, the man... | 2017-08-21T19:18:00 | 2017-08-21T18:17:40 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] The rules are simple: you kill a God and you get to replace them. But no one does it. No one wants to find out why the Gods don't seem to care when one of them dies. | I conjured up fire. The fireball grew in my hands and I fashioned it into a circular board, then I went up Mount Olympus to meet the King of God's. Today would be the last time anyone would see him. Our battle would shake the heavens and Earth. He would pay for messing with my mother. I will have my revenge.
A... | He looks at the sword, making sure that he really did what he came to do. That God was really dead, a not moving dead body.
"Aaaaaaa!" screamed man out of happiness, standing and then started screaming even louder, hands up.
"I fucking did it! Rob the Godslayer! Wait, no. If legends are true.... Rob the motherfucking... | 2017-09-05T14:10:32 | 2017-09-05T14:09:03 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] Despite having pink hair, a tragic backstory, and untold magic power, the narrator refuses to make you the main character | The story of Josh
A mighty fine lad
He lives in Kentucky
With his friend Chad
 
And every day
On his way to work
He walks past this loser
God, what a jerk
 
Some kid with pink hair
An orphan at birth
Some say he’s magic
No way on earth
 
He’s just a nobody
Don’t focus on him
... | *Sigh.*
I can hear it every time. Really, **every** time. That dumb voice that booms out whatever John does.
It really isn't fair, you know? John doesn't really *do* anything. He's the camp cook, and that's what drives me crazy!
Look, we have a lot of talent here, and I'm not saying that John isn't good at what he ... | 2017-12-18T20:19:09 | 2017-12-18T19:31:44 | 415 | 27 |
[WP]At last the Dovahkiin dies. Now all the Daedra princes he has served over his life fight for his soul. | We fought each other to no avail. The Dovahkiin had fallen after serving each of us in turn. His soul was by rights one of ours, but we failed to see beyond Nirn, byond oblivion. We forgot who waits out there.
The mortal never swore himself to us, but he did dedicate his soul to one being, and one being alone. We tho... | The Day the Daedra feared has come. Dovahkiin has died! But not only that, for a great strife has formed. The Dark Daedric princes who did have the Dragonborn serving them, are now fighting for his greatest item. Not a necklace or a sword. For it is not a mundane item. They want the soul of the Dragonborn.
As they al... | 2018-06-15T08:27:33 | 2018-06-15T08:08:41 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] You been shot through your helmet. As you lay in the sand you hope for a quick death. Minutes pass. You reach your hand back to pressure the wound. Instead of blood you feel exposed wiring.
sorry about the grammar mistake in the title, I’m on mobile |
I could taste the metal of the bullet. Weirdly, that was the first thought that came to mind as I stared up into the blue sky, watching as the occasional puff of smoke meant yet another of my companions met their untimely demise far, far above me. War wasn’t even supposed to have happened yet, but try telling that ... | **If you are viewing this, this means that you need to get to the 18th street, San Francisco. We regrettably inform you that this directive is hierarchical and overriding. Your circuits to your neural network have been damaged, and we can't let you,** ***for your own safety***\*\*, carry on with perfectly adaptive pr... | 2018-11-28T05:29:46 | 2018-11-28T01:12:36 | 342 | 103 |
[WP] You been shot through your helmet. As you lay in the sand you hope for a quick death. Minutes pass. You reach your hand back to pressure the wound. Instead of blood you feel exposed wiring.
sorry about the grammar mistake in the title, I’m on mobile | "Ah. I see. What?"
As you pass your hand through your exposed head, you feel wires. Metal. Not the meaty remains of your brain, or several gallons of blood, or even a mix of both, but wires. You pull, then immediately regret it, feelimg insurmountable pain. It may be best to go back to the trenches.
As you crawl back... | As I laid there I thought. I thought about all the things I’d done wrong in my life. All the lives I’ve taken. Almost two hundred now, least that’s what the notches say. I had no wife, no family, nobody to care about. The kids at school always called me cold, heartless, mean- and I felt nothing. Now in my dying breaths... | 2018-11-28T05:52:00 | 2018-11-28T05:43:31 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Over the years your D&D game has managed to continue with most of the original players. However, almost everyone's life circumstances have changed drastically since they began and you now DM for a group of some of the most-powerful people on the planet. | *Final Call. Session from 6:30pm to 11pm on the 12th. Next session 1pm to 5pm on the 24th. Any objections?*
People usually laughed when they see me text, since it always sounds so formal. It makes me sound old, which isn't fair. I just turned 39 in June. And considering who I was texting, it makes sense to be like tha... | **Growing up with rich people as an artist**
Life changes you.
What was once a day in the park with your mates became something more. Years of the same.
I don't know if you've noticed, but most of 'the rich and powerful' have really not got that great touch with words.
Neither are they in tune with the musical asp... | 2019-06-26T05:08:22 | 2019-06-26T04:52:13 | 262 | 19 |
[WP] You are at heaven's doors. Angels and God debated if you can come in because you have committed no sins during your lifetime, but you have the highest kill assists they ever saw. | There wasn't some montage-esque sequence of life events that flashed before Johann Steiner's eyes when he passed away. There wasn't some bright, welcoming light. Nor a recollection of the fondest moment in his 79 years of life. There simply wasn't - and then there simply was again, but Johann was somewhere new.
On a f... | As I laid on my deathbed, I was at peace, for I knew that heaven awaited me. How could it not? In the course of my life, I had not sinned a single time. Not once had I coveted what my neighbor had, or wished ill upon another human, or even said an unkind word about another person. I felt my life slipping away from me, ... | 2019-07-09T13:16:54 | 2019-07-09T10:30:54 | 45 | 32 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | The way my schedule works gives me little to no space for rest or even just idling around. Everyday consists of me dragging myself to class and trying not to pass out every 30 seconds. I think of how nice other people have it being able to warp to class because they were just a little to impatient. Or how others don't ... | My powers **never** seemed to manifest, but people **always** seemed to agree with me.
Detective Wright slammed the table with his hand and looked at me with a righteous fury, as though he was capable of extracting the information he wanted. Sure, he could read minds, but he couldn't make sense of mine. Nobody ever co... | 2019-09-08T11:41:24 | 2019-09-08T11:18:58 | 31 | 20 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | "Perceived Invisibility? What's that mean?"
My friend stared at me puzzlingly across the table, having no idea what kind of power I had.
"So, you can become invisible at will?
"Not quite. Only people who know me or I want to know me can see me."
"Weird. So you have like a social barrier to everyone else?"
People st... | My power is unique to me, and me alone. You see, I’ve always believed that current modern society wasn’t for me; it always felt like I was stuck in a prison, and as “free” as I was in this prison, it was still a prison. I’m very introverted, you see, so I’ve always had a hard time expressing myself, and it didn’t help ... | 2019-09-08T11:07:43 | 2019-09-08T11:02:00 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | No one truly knew how it happened, but on a person's sixteenth birthday, they were teleported to a room. It was a small, dark room that housed a long table that was full of every food imaginable.
Today was Robert's birthday. It happened in a instant; one moment, he was sitting on the couch trying to pick out which vi... | "This is the opposite of Santa Claus," I said to myself, as I shambled alone through an endless white expanse.Some things you believe as a child, then one day you realize it was all a game for children. With the *transition,* well, I have to admit I never believed it. Yet there I was and it seemed as real as anything.*... | 2020-03-19T10:34:21 | 2020-03-19T09:29:08 | 39 | 29 |
[WP] “Do not go outside. Ignore all the cries for help, no matter how human they sound.” That was the last thing he said before he shut the basement door. | “Don’t go outside. Ignore all the cries for help, no matter how human they sound,” her father said as he hefted the bloody axe into his hand. He started up the stairs out of the cellar and stopped. "You can always tell when they're not human, listen. Listen!"
“Papa, no—no they *are!* They are people!” she cried pullin... | I’m slowly bleeding out. He is gone for at least 20 minutes. The last thing he said was, ‘Do not go outside. Ignore all the cries for help, no matter how human they sound.’
We didn’t know what we were doing. I remember taking my backpack and going a hike with Terry. I’ve never expected to see something falling down fr... | 2020-04-26T08:20:00 | 2020-04-26T05:52:23 | 154 | 44 |
[WP] “Do not go outside. Ignore all the cries for help, no matter how human they sound.” That was the last thing he said before he shut the basement door. | The kid's face gave it all away. All I had to do was wait.
He gulped, his Adams apple making a long and surprisingly complicated transit up and down his scrawny neck, practically popping his shirt collar on the way. When he spoke, his voice didn't quiver, but it was clear this took some effort.
"And that's when they... | Human, am I not human? Do I not matter? Why was I left out of the door? He said it to those creatures as he shut the door. What is human? What is the purpose of human? He expired from his injuries before I could ask him. I tried to contact the creatures he stowed away inside but they wouldn’t respond. That was several ... | 2020-04-26T09:00:06 | 2020-04-26T08:48:56 | 40 | 24 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | All the students were getting up to leave class when he heard, "Matthew, might I speak to you for a moment?"
"Of course, Professor."
Professor Xavier had always been kind to him. Matthew long suspected that Xavier knew he was hiding his full potential but the professor never pushed the subject and treated Matthew li... | In my defense, I didn’t mean to lie. At least, not at first.
There’s just only so many answers you can give to one of the most powerful A-list mutants in the world after she saves your entire class from death via careening down a mountain in the middle of a freak hurricane.
And those answers all invariably include sh... | 2022-11-09T16:36:25 | 2020-07-15T07:26:54 | 9,106 | 1,209 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | Its hard to keep secrets, especially when part of your existence is nothing but lying. Telling a lie is easy, but maintaining that lie is one of the most difficult things you can ever put yourself through.
In the beginning it was small things, like not accidentally knocking stuff over or feigning ignorance about knowl... | When, for all practical purposes, you're a god, life gets interesting. Especially at 14. No one can know, or you will be blamed for everything. If I have all this power, why don't I save everyone? Why is there strife?
I don't know Karen, why'd you scream at that McDonalds worker for giving you five cents wrong in chan... | 2020-07-15T07:17:13 | 2020-07-15T07:04:42 | 53 | 33 |
[WP] You're a weak telepath. Your limited powers allow you to catch glimpses into people's memories. Usually you see major events like weddings and graduations. You just saw into the memory of the man next to you. You saw his coronation as king of a nation you've never heard of. | Time passes in strange ways on the train. Looking out the window, the world seems stopped, like a snowglobe, but a dozen lifetimes can go by in the blink of an eye. Sometimes it curls around itself, like an ourobouros. No one on the train can tell you how long they've been there, but we all know we're going to the same... | “All hail the Mighty King Frank, Ruler of the land of Argunist.”
The roaring cheers deafened me for a moment, my head swaying quickly from side to side. Memories often would frighten you if you weren’t paying attention. It was like a jump scare for the mind. Even with my limited abilities, the memory I saw was clear.... | 2020-09-01T23:37:09 | 2020-09-01T22:13:43 | 403 | 68 |
[WP] 22 years ago, your son cried to you about a monster under his bed. He spoke a lot after that about a new imaginary friend. Today, your son’s wedding day, you learn that the monster and imaginary friend were both the same and incredibly real. Your son’s best man. | When my son Timothy was young he had the same dream every night. He’d come running into my room crying, calling for his mom (never for me) and I’d sweep him up in my arms and hold him until the tears stopped. He’d never see mine, those I saved up carefully until he was asleep, peacefully snuggled under the covers in hi... | "Oh honey!" I say to my boy, "I'm so happy for you! I wish your father was here to see you being wed to your beautiful fiancé..."
"Yes, me too." He replies, a soft smile on his lips. "I'll let you go take a seat, mom, Mr. Shnoubs is going to be ready soon and then we'll start." Before I could respond, I was shooed out... | 2020-11-27T19:23:23 | 2020-11-27T15:16:08 | 48 | 33 |
[WP] A teenage boy spends a season helping out his grandmother in her orange fields. One tree in the field never bears fruit, yet his grandmother tends to it everyday with deep reverence. One day he asks her why, the answer changes his life forever. | The old woman smiled, the weatherworn creases in her face suddenly reorganizing themselves into irrigation ditches for tears and laughter. “Why?” she echoed, patting the tree trunk, her gnarled hands just as rough and warm as the bark. “This old tree’s got many reasons, Jev. Here’s one—did you know your ancestors are b... | ***The Rind*** :
The depression was bad. The plague that followed, worse. But the dust storms that claimed lives and property along the way were nothing short of an unavoidable reckoning of destruction.
Gramma and Grampa Faulise survived it all together, and somehow still intact, managed to till and cultivate this wa... | 2021-05-26T15:08:46 | 2021-05-26T13:58:27 | 85 | 40 |
[WP]Humans were one of the best pilots in the history of intergalactic travel, that was a well know fact. And yet, the ITA warned against hiring human pilots. Not an outright ban, per se, just not recommended. | Humans can drive. You name it, they can handle it. Say which button does what and within an hour they’re up to fleet standards. Born pilots the whole lot. So why does the ITA warn against them? Because humans cannot seem to get it through their wrinkly little brains that traffic rules are there to be followed. NEVER hi... | A1: What's the order and who's the client?
A2: We have a shipment of medical supplies and emergency provisions to a colony of lamia-da, and the client is... oh dear
A2: What? Who is it?
A1: The Cludon collective
A2: The war-mongers turned cultivation makers?
A1: The very same
A2: well, how much time did they give... | 2021-11-25T18:53:01 | 2021-11-25T17:01:53 | 108 | 77 |
[WP] In an effort to identify different species, you create a device that can scan an animal and tell you its DNA. You decide to test it on your cat. Delighted it even works, you look at the screen. "0% Cat" | All the best inventions came for the sake of convenience. Sure, there were other factors, such as curiosity and pushing the limits of human ingenuity, but the core factor was either making a process easier or obsoleting it by finding and easier way.
Well, my claim to fame (or what will be) will make the identificatio... | I looked up from the screen and at my cat. I knew the device worked, I had practically unlimited funding from Havered, a team of genius assistants, and access to every genome ever documented. The device had to have worked. And yet, it said my cat was not a cat. Just as the implications of this started to occur to me, t... | 2021-12-17T21:18:53 | 2021-12-17T19:51:03 | 148 | 92 |
[WP] You are allowed to 'downvote' a government candidate instead of voting normally, reducing their votes by one. Turns out people have little love for politicians, and the majority end with negative votes. In these democracies, anonymity is the key to winning. | "I'm sorry, but we already have a candidate registered under the name Puppies Apple Pie, you'll have to choose a different pseudonym. Please choose something quickly, as we close in two minutes."
The elections office clerk was ancient. She had permed pink hair and was wearing glasses on a chain in a style that Julia c... | I only ran as a joke.
I just wanted to see how many downvotes I could get by running a cringe-worthy campaign. Most people in my life didn't even know I was a candidate. Can you blame me, though? My username was 'Asslover420' and my advertising consisted of post-ironic 'Rick and Morty' memes that I shared on my person... | 2022-11-21T08:20:23 | 2022-11-21T07:58:56 | 448 | 284 |
[WP] One day, you’re just chilling in your room listening to music through your headphones. A song in a language you don’t understand comes on, however you still try to mumble along. Suddenly, with a burst of flames, a demon appears in your room saying, “Who dare summon me in the tongue of old!?” | It had a terrifying form and its eyes were blazing, but it spoke in a voice that was oddly soothing, like a lullaby.
"You called me here, so tell me: What do you wish for?" it said.
I was so scared that I couldn't even speak, but then I remembered that I had been wishing for something before the demon appeared.
"I w... | You jump out of your seat in shock, your headphones slipping off your head. Your heart is pounding as you watch the demon hovering in mid-air, its eyes burning red as it stares right at you. You try to back away but you're rooted to the spot. You open your mouth to say something but all that comes out is a stutter.
T... | 2022-11-29T20:04:35 | 2022-11-29T16:52:56 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] Create a story that ends with a sentence that you never thought you would utter in your entire life
Expecting something funny/ridiculous, but feel free to go out of the box
EDIT: Thanks for all the responses, guys! This prompt came out of the blue and I was interested in how this community would respond to it :)... | The general looked up from his folders. Eyed the faces that circled the table. The best military and scientific minds of this generation. Every single pair of eyes, male or female, they were downcast. Serious. These were faces that looked like they ate gravel for breakfast and liked it. Today, they looked like they wou... | Zevra examined the chrome maser pistol for a moment. She felt its unusual heft and squinted to see the small text next to a button labeled, "Safety." She pressed the safety down with her thumb and it made a satisfying click. A display quickly flashed on its side showing a 50% charge. Her wristphone began to vibrate. ... | 2014-03-11T23:08:26 | 2014-03-11T21:10:05 | 17 | 11 |
[WP]: After losing a bet, a master assassin must kill a world leader with a banana | "Potassium Assassin"
He came equipped with a banana stripped
Of its yellow filling-stuff so to choke
His intended target with circumscript
Arrangements that prescribed he joke
About with his salacious, murderous
Action to kill the foreign health leader
In fashion ironic and factitious
Because this man ... | First time poster and I always love constructive feedback. Enjoy!
Killing is an art, a process. The true artist works in canvases of gags, marbles of lead, and clays of explosive compounds but it is the seductive pallete that appeals to our nature and draws us to create. Whether it’s the deep mcintosh crimson of blood... | 2014-05-13T13:02:49 | 2014-05-13T12:59:45 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] A man hands you a credit card, pulls out a pistol, and shoots himself. You look down just in time to see the name on the card change to yours. | "Security footage clearly shows you had nothing to do with the man's death, Mr. Stephenson. We are just trying to understand how he got your credit card to begin with," The officer said calmly, his fingers resting on the keyboard, waiting for Mike to speak.
*His credit card. It was his until he gave it to me.* Mike t... | Zevra held the card in her hand as she stood in shock at the dead man bleeding on the pavement below. A crowd suddenly emerged and she backed into it, still staring at the card. Questions and accusations were thrown around but no one in the crowd seemed to know what happened or that the man interacted with Zevra befo... | 2014-09-22T09:21:57 | 2014-09-22T09:19:28 | 83 | 61 |
[WP] In 1907 Vienna Academy of Fine Arts rejects Young Adolf Hitler twice and soon after he survives four different assassination attempts by time travellers. Confused Hitler is convinced that its his art is what the world fears.
Inspiration:
http://i.imgur.com/tGV2LFt.jpg | Love this prompt. But I'm gonna try to take it into a new perspective.
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William returned from the past, bleeding, but alive. He sat down, hand covering his wound.
"I failed, Zachary," he uttered to his fellow scientist. "I couldn't do it. It's like he knew I was coming."
"Couldn't do... | "I don't understand any of this." Adolf muttered into his coffee. "The world has gone mad."
"If someone is truly trying to kill you, as you say, then shouldn't you be more careful about what you drink?" Markus was tapping the table impatiently. He had an appointment of some kind.
"Look, here is another!" Adolf pointe... | 2014-11-16T12:00:08 | 2014-11-16T11:58:59 | 77 | 35 |
[WP] Write the most elaborate, over-dramatic, and exciting story you can think of that all just turns out to be a set-up for a pun so horrible I'll want to punch you
It actually doesn't have to be dramatic or exciting or anything similar, just make sure it's elaborate so the final pun delivery is a gut-wrenching blow | I sat with him for the first time not irritated by the wheezing blocked breaths I had put up with for the last thirty odd years. I had chosen to marry this man, and I hated him. Tonight, though, for the first time in so long, that wasn't on the forefront of my mind.
My knitting also sat on my lap, a stitch dropped and... | "Something is wrong with the water," Suzanna declared, sashaying into the saloon. She plopped the water bucket onto the bar without ceremony, startling several drunks nearby.
With a long-suffering sigh, Stu gave another cowboy a glass of whiskey. If this girl wasn't Meg's cousin, he'd have fired her long ago. "What... | 2015-01-13T12:16:49 | 2015-01-13T10:22:08 | 80 | 15 |
[WP] When you die, you see a screen reading "New Game+" and "Exit to Reality" Which do you chose and what happens next? | *Phil hits a button reading, 'Exit to Reality.' He suddenly realizes that he's been starting at his phone for a fairly long time now inside a fashionable coffee shop.*
P: Wait, what? Where...
*He looks up from his phone to see a somewhat familiar face seeming all too pleased at Phil's confusion.*
J: So? What did yo... | What a fantastic end to the night. Downtown always looked best after dark and the snow fall added just the right amount of contrast to the scene. It was my annual Christmas office party and we had just left the venue. As I opened the cab door to let my wife in she smiled at me and I thought for the hundredth time how r... | 2015-03-13T14:14:05 | 2015-03-13T14:07:56 | 252 | 15 |
[WP]You wish to a genie that all of humanity would gain super powers. The genie tells you this wish was granted 5000 years ago. | The weight of greed weighed heavily upon my avaricious heart. I slipped the lamp from my backpack and pondered upon the potential rewards. While constrained against wishes for resurrection, love, and death, possibilities still danced through the hall of my mind. My heart's desire overpowered my rational restraint and m... | "What?!" I sputtered. This had to be some sort of joke, right? I think I'd know if I had super powers - if the whole of humanity had superpowers.
In front of me, the genie chuckled brazenly. "Yup. Almost three thousand BC. Some barmy little guy just like you - big dreams and all - wished the very same thing." The geni... | 2015-03-18T23:07:19 | 2015-03-18T22:52:35 | 45 | 12 |
[WP] Instead of three wishes, a genie grants you three questions that he will answer truthfully, regardless of whether any human knows the answer. | He didn't look like a genie. He just looked like a guy in a bar. He WAS a guy in a bar. He had a plaid shirt and a glass of whisky and the beginnings of a good beard and a bored, blankish, tired expression. All guy-in-a-bar things. Not genie things.
But that's what he said when he called me over. I was also a guy in ... | "Three." The genie chanted, "But only three. Choose wisely, human, for while I am sworn to truth, the truth may not be what you truthfully desire. You may ask anything."
I sat there for a long time. Thinking. I had to make good use of this moment.
"If you were a human, would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or ... | 2015-05-22T11:19:22 | 2015-05-22T08:29:43 | 318 | 135 |
[WP] An angry/depressed dictionary writer can't keep his personal problems out of word examples | -grief
ɡrēf/
noun
deep sorrow, especially that caused by someone's death.
-slide
slīd/
noun
a structure with a smooth sloping surface for children to slide down, now sitting there uselessly
-cab·i·net
ˈkab(ə)nət/
noun
a cupboard with drawers or shelves for storing or displaying articles that should have been... | Harlot [harh –luht]
A prostitute or promiscuous woman.
Examples:
Only a fool would spend a decade with a cheating harlot.
That harlot blew Ted's best friend during their anniversary party.
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Harm [hahrm]
To physically injury or mentally damage.
Examples:
Jeez, what harm could it be to cheat on your loving sp... | 2015-06-09T16:56:14 | 2015-06-09T13:39:50 | 210 | 156 |
[WP] You have the ability that lets you know exactly what to say to someone at any given moment that would cause them to break down in tears. | "Its not that hard." Pete said, stirring his drink absentmindedly, "People always go after the weaknesses in others. People assume that makes them strong, somehow."
Richard furrowed his brow. "What do you mean? What else would you do?"
Pete stopped fidgeting with his drink and looked at Richard levelly. "If I were ... | He looked at her with disgusted eyes. She pranced back and forth in front of him rambling about his wrong doings which he did not care about. "Oh I could break you in a few simple words." He thought to himself. All he had to do was stare and they come to him like a flash. She seemed to believe she had all the power in ... | 2015-06-16T15:54:33 | 2015-06-16T14:43:10 | 499 | 53 |
[WP] You have the ability that lets you know exactly what to say to someone at any given moment that would cause them to break down in tears. | **Some Judge**
Standing on the corner of 10th and main
I see this woman berating a man I assume to be her lover
She reminds me of someone
I can't put my finger on her
I say:
Ma'am, this won't bring the old one back,
demeaning this one.
No one will ever love you.
She bursts into tears
And I ingratiate... | He looked at her with disgusted eyes. She pranced back and forth in front of him rambling about his wrong doings which he did not care about. "Oh I could break you in a few simple words." He thought to himself. All he had to do was stare and they come to him like a flash. She seemed to believe she had all the power in ... | 2015-06-16T14:58:39 | 2015-06-16T14:43:10 | 116 | 53 |
[WP] It's becoming embarassingly apparent to everyone that you've never actually killed a zombie before. | It wasn’t like I’d ever lied about it. Everyone had simply assumed. I run outside the gates gathering equipment from what remains of the ruins of civilization. People expected that I would have killed a few zombies. Now we were talking shit around the campfire, eating roasted deer; a deer I shot and brought back to cam... | He felt the beads of perspiration forming on his forehead as his face began to turn a vivid red. His eyes darted from person to person searching desperately for a friendly face that was nowhere to be found. He opened his mouth hoping to find the words as he spoke.
"Yeah, I came out the toilet a few days ago and saw...... | 2016-02-01T16:26:01 | 2016-02-01T14:58:34 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | *Are you ready to head out boys?* Jason yells from the living room.
We take out buttons with us, as always, just to be safe. Things used to be much more difficult before The Button was introduced. Since the first night, we haven't failed to go without a payday yet. We're working on our 56th night tonight.
*Alright le... | For the hundredth time, you glance at your computer screen, the bright bold number 23:50:58 flashing back at you. The button lies there innocuously, an entire section of the desk to itself, the words PRESS ME tauntingly painted on it. You edge your hand closer to the button, but that section of the desk might as well h... | 2016-07-16T17:51:04 | 2016-07-16T17:25:16 | 3,429 | 1,781 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | *Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
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*Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the damned credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
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*Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the god damned credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
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May... | By the way Gwen and I reacted to our new buttons, you'd think that we were little girls. Really, we were sixteen, old enough to finally own a Money Button. Both of our parents thought that the buttons were far too dangerous, but that didn't take the thrill away, and certainly didn't stop them from coming in the mail. N... | 2016-07-16T19:30:28 | 2016-07-16T19:05:24 | 113 | 29 |
[WP] (drops weapon) "Shit. I just realized something." "What?" "We're the bad guys....." | "So let me get this straight. You think we're the bad guys. Like 'we're' as in you and I?"
"Exactly!"
"I apologize for playing devil's advocate here, but would a bad guy do this?"
Bad Guy 2 pushes old woman into on coming traffic
"Yes! A bad guy would 100% do that."
"Really!? Really!? Well would a bad guy do this?... | The Fox News director screamed into his headset, "Get him off the air! Get him off the Goddamn air!"
"Did he just say, 'we're the bad guys?" one of the interns whispered to the 2nd AD in a high gossipy tone.
"Yep."
"Hol-y shit. Hol-y motherfucking sh-t," she said whipping out her phone to tweet.
REILLY IS LOSI... | 2016-07-19T22:59:48 | 2016-07-19T22:45:47 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] You are able to see the number of days a person has left to live above their heads. For the first time in your life, you see someone with a negative number. | Bob is a goner.
I think the whole office suspects. The noticeable weight loss, thinning hair and increased absences are impossible to ignore. They suspect, but I know.
He shows up Monday looking capable by his new standard and sickly by his old with a large "92" floating above his head in neon blue lettering, the kin... | He was quite well-dressed, in a sleek black suit with a lovely purple pocket square. He *looked*, at first glance, to be doing quite well for himself. Slick hair, shiny shoes, gold cuffs.
As I came a bit closer, however, I noticed that his color was a bit...off. He was a yellowish sort of color, somewhere between a v... | 2016-09-02T08:36:34 | 2016-09-02T08:31:46 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] It is the 24 th of july, your birthday, and also the day that humanity is going to reach 10 billion inhabitants. You are watching the number grow, live on a site. Just as it's about to hit 10 billion, at 9,999,999,999... It Hits 2. You are still alive. | I watch the counter, eagerly. Humanity had struggled a lot, and we were finally about to hit a major checkpoint. And I had the satisfaction of being a part of it. I sat back at my desk and chuckled to myself as I took a sip of coffee.
Dale looked over to me. "What's so funny?"
"Oh, nothing. Just glad to finally be ge... | I sit down in my recliner with my coffe and turn on the news. It's still early in the morning, my zen hour, I have the whole apartment to myself. The talking heads are all yammering on about the same thing today, population statistics. Each one discussing the geopolitical impact of humanity's expansion out of control. ... | 2017-02-28T20:44:47 | 2017-02-28T18:37:38 | 581 | 58 |
[WP] Deep beneath the trenches of WW1, there is a hidden tavern run by soldiers, for soldiers of both sides.
I submitted something similar a few months back. Hoping for a few more responses to read :) | An hour. Sixty minutes. Sixty short minutes and then back we go. Back up top. Back to the slaughter. Fifty-nine minutes. A couple of Gerry troops slouch over an old trench frame that now stands as a makeshift bar. I wonder if it’s from one of theirs or one of ours, but it doesn’t matter I suppose. The Down Below, we ca... | Blood and tears were flung across the battleground as screams of both fear and intimidation rang in the ears of the soldiers. Chaos seemed to be raining down, a fitting similarity to the storm that ravaged the fields that they were fighting upon...
Winston had just sat onto his favourite seat in the bar, it was made f... | 2017-05-22T12:58:42 | 2017-05-22T12:47:32 | 56 | 15 |
[WP] You've been convicted of 1st degree murder, and (as is customary in society) are sentenced to "death by black-hole." You expect death as your capsule approaches the event horizon. After crossing, everything goes silent, until you hear someone say "Sir, I've found another one." | I didn't have any tears left.
I had spent them all on the dead. On the sick. The court didn't believe me. How could they? A disease only I can see...
So here I am. Drifting towards the black hole. The judge laughed when I was sentenced. Spoke of the unimaginable pain I would feel as my body was slowly stretched out..... | They called it a "gentle" death.
I laughed mirthlessly. People will tell that to themselves to console them, reassure each other what they're doing isn't barbaric. Sagittarius A had a gentle singularity - I would get crushed so quickly by the rapid change in gravity that I wouldn't even feel it.
Quite the comfort.
... | 2017-07-13T19:24:15 | 2017-07-13T19:17:32 | 225 | 80 |
[WP] You've been convicted of 1st degree murder, and (as is customary in society) are sentenced to "death by black-hole." You expect death as your capsule approaches the event horizon. After crossing, everything goes silent, until you hear someone say "Sir, I've found another one." | My capsule hurtled toward a black hole and all I could do was wait. I couldn't move much in my sophisticated coffin as I waited to be buried deep in a hole in space. But at least I had a little window to peak at the stars as I plummeted to my doom. It's the little things.
Death by Black Hole. That was the sentence for... | "We find the defendant guilty, on all charges your honor." The foreman sat back down, her eyes flickered to me, a brief look of satisfaction crossing her face.
I laughed and shook my head. They had asked us to join their collective governance, but the reality was; we Terrans had signed away our freedoms and rights in ... | 2017-07-14T01:41:48 | 2017-07-13T23:43:40 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] You are a semi truck driver with a hands free device. You receive a call from a telemarketer in the morning. He can't hang up on you, and little does he know that you're perfectly willing to talk to him all day long. | There is a section of Highway 24 which winds through a forested area. There are tall elms on both sides, so thick that the advertisers couldn't figure out how to fit the billboards in. The local teenagers like to drive there for some privacy, and from time to time we get calls about drunken revellers setting off firecr... | It's not too bad a job. Of course, the majority of my time I'm on the road, but you know, the views can be good. Sometimes. I guess it mostly is a drag going back and forth from Orlando to Seattle as many times as they can squeeze out of me in a year. But the money's good, I guess, and I don't spend much so I'm saving ... | 2017-12-18T22:02:25 | 2017-12-18T19:02:34 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] The concept of shoot to kill is foreign to other galactic species. Only humans condition their warriors to kill in the most efficient and cold methods possible. When faced with a war they can not win a race does the unthinkable, they set the humans loose. | For ten years the war has been destroying our planet. When the first krogen ships landed near the imperial town we were curious about their intentions. We were not prepared for any hostility. Our society overcame violence and war thousands of years ago. When they aimed their electric guns at us we were petrified. They ... | The first few years of the war were a brutal, hopeless time. We'd been caught off guard, our race still unaware of other worldly life, and our armies were overwhelmed by their forces.
It was an interesting method of invasion: the squid like species that decided our planet's resources were too valuable to pass up were... | 2018-07-20T19:17:28 | 2018-07-20T14:26:02 | 211 | 104 |
[WP] You have an interesting ability, you can teleport, but only when no one is looking. One night you get hungry so you attempt to teleport downstairs for a snack. You attempt to teleport but realize, you can't.
Original post by Alberto9324 | What, no that can’t be right. Hmmm, let’s try this again maybe I just fucked up part of it up. Ok, my eyes are closed, now just picture the fridge. There it is right in front of me, perfect. Now snap my head forward, open my eyes and. Shit…
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Ok it’s definitely not just me here. Keep calm, let’s figure thi... | I must have looked like an idiot. The teleportation rituals only work when someone is not watching, because if I did them when someone was, I would be too embarrassed to concentrate enough. The rituals involved spinning in circles as fast as possible while you concentrate on the place you are trying to go. Eventually, ... | 2018-09-11T17:52:55 | 2018-09-11T16:39:17 | 260 | 15 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | Not a day would pass that I wouldn't look into the mirror and wonder if I am stuck in a dream. Now I am sure of it. There can be no other explanation. I should have passed from this realm long ago, and now I seem to be having hallucinations that only happen in dreams. Or perhaps nightmares.
Death himself visited me fo... | ‘I’ve long forgotten you ‘ death said as he took the small hour glass in his hands and arched his skull to a smile reminded of its owner,
39 years ago the bells of ashes has rang loudly “ time to bring the souls home “ death said as he took each hour glass that was placed under the bell as the last
spect of sand had... | 2018-10-03T08:25:36 | 2018-10-03T07:48:22 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. |
Ok so what happened isn’t my fault I want to make that clear, it happened way before my time. But naturally it was blamed on me. My boss is kind of a huge dick. I like him most of the time but some days he gives me so much shit to do that I can’t even seem to keep track of my left elbow let alone a CD-126T terminat... | The boy ran, red-faced, across the field full of dead grass and frosty branches. Winter had passed but spring was yet to come. His still frozen breaths shivered him slightly. It was cold, yet he was burning. He might have a fever.
That morning, his parents, him and his little sister along with another dozen doctors an... | 2018-10-03T07:42:16 | 2018-10-03T07:34:53 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Log 2543: We have landed on the planet known as Earth and have made contact with an inhabitant. They call themselves “Benjamin” and are 5 Earth cycles in age. He wished to engage in an activity known as “hide and seek”. We cannot find him now. Requesting aid. | "Obviously the humans possess stealth technology unlike any we have encountered," Dajos said, "This Benjamin is toying with us. I shall declare Dus Vas when I find him."
"Oh ho!" Norom laughed at his friend, "Dajos of the Hunter's Guild unable to track a child. You will declare the rite of ritual combat with him? B... | Log 2544: Repeat, requesting aid. The humans are giants, our instruments show Benjamin to be seven thousand two hundred and forty-four retricts tall. The tallest among our species is just under a thousand retricts. Not only the planet is massive, the inhabitants are as well. If Benjamin is an example, these creatures a... | 2018-10-04T15:39:30 | 2018-10-04T13:27:10 | 2,138 | 224 |
[WP] Your free trial for life has ended, but to everyone's surprise, you are the first to figure out how to get a premium subscription, leaving the Grim Reaper very, very confused.
EDIT: wow I didn't expect this to get more than 7 upvotes | Laying on my deathbed, surrounded by family and friends, I see the grim reaper approach, my time had come... well, not really.
See a couple years ago I had found this little tablet thingy, with a bunch of strange glyphs and runes on it. So when I found it I simply just touched one of the symbols, and a voice, from su... | I slowly turn the handle, and push the door open. Of course it creaks. All old doors do. I'm wary. I never like it when an appointment isn't scheduled. Most people think I love my job, but it is my own personal hell. I descend the the wooden staircase into the basement, scared of what I might find down here. Every seco... | 2019-04-15T05:49:41 | 2019-04-15T03:00:22 | 96 | 58 |
[WP]You're an ancient Greek man coming home from 4 months of war to find your wife 3 months pregnant. Now you've embarked on a solemn quest: to punch Zeus in the face. | "You're here to do what to me?" the King of the Gods asked, a bushy eyebrow raised and a sudden smile appearing on his face.
"Punch you in the face," I said, my fists closing and opening in anticipation, "You got my wife pregnant."
"Ah," Zeus looked away in contemplation, "Was it Lorissa of Abila?" When he saw my lo... | “Honey, I’m home!”
The war was brief all things considered, but it was still an arduous struggle. The bodies piled high towards the sky. Everytime we go to battle, it’s not the blood and gore that get me, it’s not the screams of my comrades as they’re butchered, it’s not even the pain I might endure. It’s the smell. T... | 2019-08-20T06:13:53 | 2019-08-20T05:59:57 | 257 | 56 |
[WP] As the Empire descends upon Earth despite the Federation's best efforts, the Galactic Council watches in horror; their invasion force will soon be wiped out, and when they are, the most violent species in the galaxy will have access to space age technology. | “I dont understand, their leaders surrendered three cycles ago, how are they still fighting?” - Said K
“They seem to be completely disconnected from their leaders sir, a rogue groups consisting of former soldiers, poorly trained civilians and a small number of tacticians” - S responded quickly
“Then how do the manage... | Diplomacy has failed. This newly discovered species had at first warned us. They had shown us the violence they are capable of, told us stories of the wars they fought amongst themselves over arbitrary imaginary lines scribbled on pictures of their planet. They entertain themselves with depictions of violence, and regu... | 2019-10-01T23:45:56 | 2019-10-01T20:50:47 | 34 | 12 |
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